Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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At the age of seventeen in June 1861 Arthur O'Shaughnessy received the post of transcriber in the library of the British Museum reportedly through the influence of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. Slug)".

Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (14 March 1844 – 30 January 1881) was a British poet of Irish descent born in London.